Returned Services Association (Inc), Island Bay Branch
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TypeAgencyDate Range1933DescriptionThe Annual General Meeting of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association held at 12 Victoria Street, on Wednesday 31 May 1933 decided to set up Auxiliary Committees in every suburb in the Wellington District. As recorded in the minutes of the AGM - "the duties of these Committees will be to grant assistance and find work for those in need of it and generally to make themselves responsible for the welfare, social and otherwise of all returned men in their districts."
The photocopied record of the Island Bay Auxiliary Committee's minutes held on Wednesday 26th July 1933 summarised the provisional committee members of the Island Bay Auxiliary Committee.
It was in 1944; there was a discussion for a dedicated building for meeting place for Island Bay members and Island Bay being referred as Island Bay Branches of Wellington RSA.
